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Creation: Cornerstone of All
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Outline of “Origins” / Creation vs. Macroevolution Unit
© Sid Galloway
Science is
wonderful. Yet, please note below, the confession of
Harvard biologist, Richard Lewontin, in New
York Review of Books, January 7, 1997, regarding the bias in
much of modern science against God.
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are
against common sense is the key to an understanding of the
real struggle between science and the supernatural. We
take the side of science in spite of its
failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health
and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific
community of unsubstantiated just–so stories, because we
have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow
compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal
world, but on the contrary, that we are forced by our a
priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus
of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material
explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how
mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
[Emphasis added in bold]
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Condensed Creation Summary Outline
© Sid Galloway
I. Significance of Origin Hypotheses
A. God’s Character
(The God of Creation vs. The Idol of Evolution)
B. Graphae (God's Word - Greek term = "written" / Scripture)
C. Gospel (The cross of Jesus, the 2nd
Adam, depends on the 1st Adam's sin)
D. Glorifying His Character
(The Cornerstone of Counseling /
Practical Fruit)
II. Evidence for Origin Hypotheses
A. Scholars (1000's of scientists and theologians reject
macroevolution)
B. Science (Only 2nd strongest evidence /
theories cannot be proven and are often falsified.)
C. Scripture
(Strongest evidence, verified
by hundreds of prophetic proofs - Isaiah 41-48)
** Demonstrates that God who transcends time led the writing of the
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I.
Significance of Origin Hypotheses (Why is this subject so
important?)
A. God (Good Shepherd or Monster)
1. Theistic evolutionists cannot explain death theologically
2. Did God design survival of the cruelest?
3. Theistic evolutionism blasphemes the character
of God the Good Shepherd
B. Graphae (Greek term = "written" / Scripture)
1. Doubt of the Bible’s beginning leads to doubt of the rest
of its claims
2. John 3:12
“If you don’t believe me on earthly things . . . why heavenly
things?”
3. Earthly = astronomy, anthropology, biology,
geology, etc
4. Heavenly = God's nature, sin, salvation,
Gospel, etc
C. Gospel (Dependent on the first Adam)
1.
Good or Bad
News
2.
Jesus,
the 2nd Adam (Rom 5) died because of the 1st
Adam
3. If Adam was merely a myth and death did
not result from his rebellion, then Jesus died for nothing.
D. Glorify (Reveal His character)
1. Cornerstone of Christianity / Counseling into the Image of
Christ
2. Practical fruit growing from root beliefs about God, self,
etc
3. Are we to become like Christ or like Hitler / Saddam / etc
II. Evidence for Origin Hypotheses
A. Scholars as Evidence (1000's of scientists and
theologians who reject evolutionary hypotheses)
* Argument from “authority” is a weak argument, yet is a
valid category for logical inference
1. Science Scholars (Christian & Non-Christian)
* A Few Christian Examples
a) Dr. Raymond Damadian, MD (Inventor of the MRI)
b) Dr. Don Menton, PhD (Anatomy Professor at Washington
Medical School)
c) Dr. Terry Mortenson, PhD (History of Geology)
d)
Dr. John Baumgardner, PhD (Los Alamos Laboratory – TERRA
supercomputer mode)
e)
Dr. Russell Humphreys, PhD (Sandi Laboratory – Physics)
f) Dr. Raymond Damadian (Inventor of the MRI)
g) Dr. A. E. Wilder-Smith, (3 Doctorates from prestigious
European universities)
h) Dr. Werner Gitt, PhD (Director German Federal Institute
of Physics & Technology)
i) Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, PhD (Chemistry, Chess Champion –
record beating 12 blindfolded)
j) Dr. James Allan, PhD (Geneticist, Scotland)
k) Dr. Jason Lisle, PhD (Astrophysics, graduated with
honors)
* A Few
Non-Christian Examples
a) Dr. Lee Spetner, PhD (Biophysics, Johns Hopkins
University)
b) Dr. Michael Behe, PhD (Biology, Berkley University)
c) Dr. Jonathan Wells, PhD
d) Dr. Gary Parker, EdD (Biology, author of 5 textbooks)
e) See
www.answersingenesis,
www.icr.org,
www.crs.org, for 100’s more examples
** Compare top
atheistic evolutionist, Dr. Richard Dawkins of Oxford, who could not
defend mutations as the mechanism.
2.
Scripture Scholars (1000’s of experts in Scripture and its
original languages)
*(Conservative experts who believe biblical creation to be
true)
a) Dr. Ting Wang (Expert in Hebrew & OT at
Stanford University)
b) Drs. Keil & Delitzsch (One of the most respected
OT commentaries ever written)
c) Dr. H. C. Leupold (Hebrew language expert, Capital
University)
d) Dr. Douglas Kelly (Professor of Systematic Theology –
summary quote re: liberal Hebrew scholars)
* Liberal
experts who reject the Bible’s inerrancy, yet admit that the Hebrew
language of Genesis teaches a literal six
24 hour day creation only thousands of years ago, with no
death before sin)
a) Dr. James Barr (Oxford University – liberal expert in the
Hebrew language and the OT
* Quotation from the liberal scholar, Dr. Barr:
“…
probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old
Testament at any world-class university who
does not believe that the writer (s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers
the ideas that:
–
creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as
the days of 24 hours we now experience
–
the
figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple
addition a chronology from the beginning of the
world up to later stages in the biblical story
–
Noah’s
flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and
animal life except for those in the ark.”
B.
Scientific Evidence
*Not the strongest evidence, since hypotheses, theories, &
laws can never be "proven" and are all subject to falsification.
1. Introduction to Science
a. Fascinating Photo Discoveries (Dino Tissue, Fossilized
Hat, etc)
b. Complementary nature of science
and Scripture
1) Logical / Critical
Thinking
2) Proverbs 14:15;
Hebrews 11:1 Faith based on evidence, not blind faith
3) NT Greek - logos =
word / information, logikos = logical
4) Jesus = THE Logos
(Rational God who created an ordered world that can be studied
logically)
5) Scientific Method
i. "Born in
the womb of Christian culture"
ii. Demands
rational belief based upon sufficient supportive evidence
b. Limitations of Science
1)
Hypothesis = (Greek, hypo – thesis = underlying belief)
2) Hypotheses can only be
supported, but never proven.
3) Hypotheses are often
falsified.
4) Theory = hypothesis
that has been tested, supported, and not yet falsified.
5) Law = theory that has
been further tested, supported, and not yet falsified.
c. Definition of Sciences
1) Experimental
2) Operational
3) Historical
2. Physical
Science (Atoms to Astronomy)
a. Astronomy (Origin of the Universe, Bara, 1st
Law Thermo, Starlight)
1) Origin of Universe (Bara / Ex Nihilo (First Law of
Thermodynamics)
2) Big Bang (Beginning or End)
3) Starlight, Time, and Relativity
4) Origin of escalating entropy (Beyond the 2nd
Law of Thermodynamics)
i. Deception, doubt, disobedience, disorder,
dysfunction, disease, death
ii.
b. Geology (Origin/Age of the Earth)
1) RATE Team of Scientists
2) Dating Assumptions (C14 in diamonds; Helium diffusion
in zircon crystals)
3) Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism
i. Global Flood
- Baumgardner’s Los Alamos Laboratory super computer
model: TERRA
- Rock layers (sedimentary deposition)
- Ice Age
- Architecture of the Ark
ii. Fossil formation
3. Biological Science (Atoms to Adam)
1) Atheistic evolutionists cannot explain LIFE
scientifically. (DNA)
2) Origin of Life / DNA (Biogenesis vs. Spontaneous
Generation)
3) Irreducible Complexity
4) No New DNA or New “Kinds”
*
No mechanism for new DNA or new “kinds” of animals
- Natural Selection is real and was first described
by Christians
- Genetic change is limited to “kinds” at the genus
or family level
- Mutations are now known to never create new DNA, but rather cause
a loss of genetic information.
- So microbes to monkeys to men change is impossible
C. Scripture (Strongest evidence, since it has the
unique support of 100’s of prophecies)
Science Speaks: Scientific Proof of the Accuracy of Prophecy and
the Bible
http://www.geocities.com/stonerdon/science_speaks.html
By PETER W. STONER, M.S., and ROBERT C. NEWMAN, S.T.M., Ph.D.,
Moody Press Chicago
PETER W.
STONER, M.S.
Chairman of the Departments of Mathematics and Astronomy at
Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science
division, Westmont College, 1953-57; Professor Emeritus of
Science, Westmont College; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and
Astronomy, Pasadena City College.
ROBERT C. NEWMAN, S.T.M., Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Cornell University, 1967; S.T.M.,
Biblical School of Theology, 1972; Associate Professor of
Physics and Mathematics, Shelton College, 19689-71; Associate
professor of New Testament, Biblical School of Theology.
(See also,
http://www.familybible.org/Articles/BibleProphecy/Probability.htm)
H. Harold Hartzler, of the American Scientific Affiliation,
Goshen College, in the foreword of Peter Stoner's book, Science
Speaks, writes: “The manuscript for Science Speaks has been
carefully reviewed by a committee of the American Scientific
Affiliation members and by the Executive Council of the same
group and has been found, in general, to be dependable and
accurate in regard to the scientific material presented. The
mathematical analysis included is based upon principles of
probability which are thoroughly sound and Professor Stoner has
applied these principles in a proper and convincing way.”
1. Hermeneutics: This is the formal process of
interpreting written documents, including the Bible.
2. Day: The Hebrew term “yom” mean a normal 24 hour day in
Genesis (qualifiers = #, evening, morning).
3. Earth: The Bible says the heavens and the earth are
thousands not millions of years old.
4. Life: The living God made plant “life” (DNA), created
(bara) nephesh animals, and humans.
5. Death: The Bible says the origin of dysfunction,
disease, and death is the sin of Adam.
6. Flood: The Bible says that Noah’s flood was global,
destroying all nostril breathing creatures.
7. Babel: The Bible says the Tower was the spark for
different cultures and languages, not races.
8. JESUS: The writers of Scripture & Jesus all taught
about Genesis 1-11 as literal history.
9. Salvation: Being saved in Noah’s Ark was a physical,
prophetic picture of being saved “in Christ”.
10. Action: What should you and I do now?
** This outline
will be expanded as this unit "evolves" :-)
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